{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Medicine","title":"The Surprising Effect of Teeth on Chronic Pain | Dr. Frank Mallon","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3698,"description":"Why Your Teeth Might Be the Reason Your Body Won't Heal\n\nMost people have never connected their jaw to their hip pain. Or their bite to their chronic neck stiffness. Or their teeth to the reason they cannot seem to get out of their own way no matter what they try.\nIn this episode of Medicine, Sean sits down with Dr. Frank Mallon, a PRI-certified physical therapist, integration specialist, and private PT to Super Bowl champions, Olympic medalists, World Cup champions, and platinum recording artists, to talk about the third and most overlooked lever in the human movement system.\nThe teeth.\nDr. Mallon's path to this work started the same week he graduated from PT school, when he was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin's lymphoma. After six months of chemotherapy, his body was in disarray.\nPanic attacks, brain fog, muscle twitching, vestibular dysfunction. Every specialist he saw told him he was fine. It was not until Ron Hruska looked at him from across a room and said \"you probably have some health issues, don't you?\" that the path forward became clear.\nWhat he found in Lincoln, Nebraska changed everything. Not just for him, but for every patient he has worked with since.\nTopics covered:\n\nHow the diaphragm, liver, and human asymmetry create a predictable pattern that works its way from the pelvis all the way into the jawWhy your mandible is a sesamoid bone and what happens to your bite when your cranium shiftsHow your teeth function as pressure sensors and proprioceptors that tell your brain where it is in spaceWhy a popsicle stick can give someone full range of internal rotation in secondsThe connection between your bite, your sphenoid bone, your pterygoid muscles, and your visual systemWhy braces and crowns done on a body that is already in a compensated pattern can lock that body in placeHow to know if your teeth are a limiting factor and the tests Sean uses before picking up the phone and calling Dr. MallonCross bites, open bites, deep canines - what to look for...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3G_G1mCE76HmDdKHP2C6I5V5Yr8KykfvhTvYgyi0RvY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNTFm/YTE5NTkzZGVmODJh/NTEwODFhMzMzNDg1/NmE4Mi5QTkc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}